Saturday, December 01, 2007

Welcome back to our weekly installment of The Pam Ward Chronicles. I'm going to be keeping track of the Announcing Quotes throughout the day and I ask that you join in. Please leave any that you come across in the comments or feel free to email me at AwfulAnnouncing@Gmail.com.

"This is a huge game obviously a MAC Championship, it's a Conference Championship, but Miami is 6 and 6 on the season and they win they're MAC Champions and they will get into a Bowl. They lose and they're done."- Pam Ward

Someone needs to tell Pam that six wins gets you into a Bowl this year.....and every year.

I take it back Pam....you were right. Because they'll finish under .500 they're out of the running. They would have been better off not making the Championship Game. I'm sorry my love.

"Well, I don't understand [the triple option] as well as some, but I understand football, and they've gotta get a play going on third and long." - Boomer Esiason (Via S2N)

That's understanding football for sure.

"I'm sure you've done a couple of Patriots games in your day. I would tell every young Quarterback to watch how Peyton, excuse me Tom Brady utilizes the pocket to his advantage."- Boomer Esiason

We could just combine them into one person when making statements along these lines. Either Peyton Brady or Tom Manning would work.

"They didn't call me I was in Gameplan."- Boomer Esiason"Yes, a DeNiro like performance from you, and a stretch playing yourself."- Ian Eagle

And we have audio problems again in the MAC Championship game. Oh man...they just went back to Pam and she didn't know she was on-air. Tough going for them today.

"The SEC Title Game Tennessee and Louisville, or LSU."- Andre Ware

"He's as good as it gets as far as a duel threat Quarterback. I'd put him up along side of Tim Tebow, Pat White, Matt Grothe...all those guys. I think Dan LeFevour is just as good if not better."- Ray Bentley

You think the fact that Bentley went to Central Michigan might have something to do with that statement?

"If they throw it to the left side of the end zone, they've got a good shot at hitting you. That'd be funny." - Brad Nessler to Paul Maguire (Via S2N)

Maguire looks funny as hell wearing those reading glasses and flying around on the Camera Truck. They keep showing shots of him about an inch from his nose.

"An Oklahoma win over Mizzou would create a cobweb of worms."- Craig James (Via Hawkeye State)

A deserving winning team is defined as one that wins a minimum of six games against Division I-A competition and has a record that includes more wins than losses. [Exception: Each year, a Division I-A institution may count a victory against a Division I-AA opponent that has averaged 90 percent of the permissible maximum number of grants-in-aid per year in Division I-AA football over a rolling two-year period.]Per Bylaw exception 30.9.2.1 an institution with a record of six wins and six losses may be selected for participation in a bowl game if 1) the institution or its conference has a primary contractual affiliation, which existed prior to the first contest of the applicable season, with the sponsoring bowl organization. In the case of a conference contractual affiliation, all conference teams with winning records must be placed in one of the contracted bowl games before any institution with a record of six wins and six losses may be placed in a contracted bowl game; and 2) all contratual affiliations have been fulfilled and all institutions with winning records have received bowl invitations (either through a contractual affiliation or as an at-large selection

By the way, AA, can we get a post ripping ESPN for their premature reporting of the Les Miles thing. Because it sounds like he's staying at LSU and there's a 1:50 eastern press conference to announce that.

AA -- so what you're saying is ESPN made another mistake by having a graphic not matching an announcer. Gee, what a surprise. You're also saying you trust ESPN more than the NCAA manual. LOL Chris Mortensen, Kirk Herbstreit, do you see where I"m going with this type of information....

The Todd Blackledge one is a little out of context. He and Patrick were talking about if a player catches the ball but part of it hits the ground, it is incomplete. While in the NFL, as long as the player has control, it is a complete pass.

Look, don't frag Mike Patrick too badly for that one. If you saw offensive competence and hard-nosed football from a team based in Pittsburgh, you'd assume it was the Steelers rather than the Panthers too.

1) The referee in the Pitt-WV game must've gotten hit on the left cheek with a box cutter before the game.2) Speaking of cheeks, I think only Mark Mangino has a bigger ass than Lisa Salters.3) Much like the dunk contest and the Home Run Derby, the "$1 million dollar throw/kick" must be abolished.